On August 18 officials from the Malaysian government accepted an invitation from Integrated Marine Works (IMW) to visit the 225-meter-long HAM 318 which had just arrived to work on the deepening of Port Klangs South Channel (Pintu Gedung). Read More
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Dr. Robert Randall has scheduled the 39th Dredging Engineering Short Course and Cutter Suction Dredge Simulator Course for January 2010 at Texas A&M University.The short course to be held January 11 through 15 is designed to educate dredge operators in the technicalities of planning and carrying out dredging operations. A maximum of nine participants will be accepted for the course and they will receive approximately three continuing education units (CEUs). Read More
Re: J.F. Brennan Uses 335000 Cubic Yards of Aggregates for Capping in Little Lake Buttes des Morts IDR July/August 2009 pp. 6 – 9. Thanks Judith. The article was awesome!… Read More
On September 28 the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) announced that Jan De Nul n.v. has been awarded the contract to dredge the Canals Atlantic entrance. Read More
Dredging Supply Company Inc. (DSC) hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony on July 13 2009 to open their new design center a 5800-square-foot building newly-erected behind the companys Thomas J. Wetta III Administration building. Read More
On September 15 The Corps of Engineers awarded a contract for construction of a shallow draft split hull hopper dredge to Conrad Industries Inc. of Morgan City Louisiana. The contract is worth $13.1 million. Read More
A survey of Morro Bay in San Luis Obispo County California has determined that an invasive species of algae - Caulerpa taxifolia - is not present clearing the way for dredging to go forward according to the Army Corps of Engineers. Read More
Karl Senner Inc. of Kenner Louisiana has received a sub-contract to provide reduction gears for the repowering of the Corps hopper Dredge Wheeler. Read More
The Times of India reported on September 1 the Dredging Corporation of Indias Dredge 16 had collided with the bulk carrier MV City near the Haldia Port Complex on August 30. Both vessels sustained damage and the Dredge 16 was taken into drydock. No one was hurt. Read More
The WEDA Environmental Commission presented a panel discussion as part of the technical program at the annual meeting in Tempe Arizona in June. Craig Vogt chair of the Environmental Commission moderated the panel which included five presentations on Port Development: Doing the Right Thing. The following are synopses of the presentations. Read More
